[mountainboy]

because some theorists ignored physical reality and got caught up in the beauty of their math instead. They let math dictate "reality" instead of vice-versa. And then they taught it in the schools as theory at first, and now seemingly as fact.

Tesla challenged the notion of "curved spacetime" as illogical. People should have listened to him.

Edwin Hubble, who discovered redshift disparity, in his later life questioned expansion as the cause. People should have listened to him.

Many "alternative" physicists over the years and still today deny expansion, dark, matter, dark energy, black holes, and other imaginary phenomena that were invented to patch mis-matches between observations and mathematical predictions.

But its like spitting in the wind against the force of inertia as everyone gets taught these fantasies in school as though they are fact.

Do yourself a favor and look into some alternative cosmology theories. I've posted a list elsewhere in this thread.